“He was going to be here tonight… So you know. It’s sad,” Jonathan told Shaun. “You can’t really bear thinking about it because it’s not the natural order. Kids should bury parents, parents shouldn’t bury kids.”

Jonathan said he has reached out to John, whom he calls “a wonderful man.”

“I sent a message to him, just to offer my condolences, because we became very, very close,” Jonathan explained of his co-star of the upcoming film. “I feel for his family and himself. He was very, very close to Jett, so my heart goes out to him. I think he’s a strong guy though. They’ll pull through. They’re a strong family unit.”

As a fan of “The Tudors,” I watched intently as Christina McLarty interviewed Jonathan Rhys Meyers about his role as the malevolently powerful King Henry VIII, which earned him a nomination for “best actor in a drama series.” I’ve been drawn to – and frightened of him – since I saw “Match Point,” the Woody Allen film in which he kills his pregnant lover, Nola, played by Scarlett Johansson. If you’ve seen any of his work, he pours himself into each role with a furious intensity that makes you wonder what he’s like in real life. While he laughed, chatted and was the perfect interviewee, I couldn’t help but notice a glimpse of the fervor that makes him such a great actor in his eyes. I would have been disappointed if it hadn’t been there, just as I was that he ultimately didn’t win in his category. But unlike King Henry VIII, who would have officially done away with the Golden Globes, I’m sure Meyers was content just to be nominated.

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